🔥 Urgent: Solana Validators Begin Voting on the New Alpenglow Protocol 🚀
Solana validators have started voting on the governance proposal SIMD-0326 for the Alpenglow protocol, which promises to reduce transaction finality time from 12.8 seconds to just 100-150 milliseconds ⚡️ — nearly 100 times faster!
So far, about 12% of validators have voted in favor of the proposal, while it needs 33% to reach quorum.
The new protocol will eliminate some old components like Proof-of-History and Tower BFT and introduce newer mechanisms like Votor and Rotor, which could improve network speed and security while alleviating the voting costs that have burdened small validators.
This change could be a pivotal step towards making Solana faster and more decentralized, supporting its position against competing networks like Sui and Ethereum. ✨